Short Story Contest EXTENDED to Sept 15

The Greatest Opportunity for Publication you will Ever Have

For the Price of a Cup of Coffee!

Welcome to Creative Writing Institute's annual short story contest.

In a small fee-based contest, the competition is much less and your chances of winning are much greater. Invest in yourself.

Publication: we will publish the first, second and third place winners, two honorable mentions, AND ten additional Judge's Pick stories in our fifth annual anthology, along with guest stories written by best-selling authors and stories written by Creative Writing Institute's staff. Enjoy the competition. Join the fun!

Judge's Pick: you may be asking what a "Judge's Pick" story is. That is a story that impressed a judge so much that he/she nominated it for publication, even though it was not a winning entry. A very high commendation for the author!

First place:
* $200 and Gold eMedal OR a free, privately tutored writing course valued at $260

Second place:
* $100 and Silver eMedal OR $200 applied toward a privately tutored writing course

Third place:
* $50 and Bronze eMedal OR $125 applied toward a privately tutored writing course

Fourth and Fifth place:
* Honorable Mention eMedal

In addition, we will publish ten Judge's Pick stories.

For the First Time -- the Lucky Draw! We would like to express our gratitude to Microsoft and TechSoup for donating a Norton AntiVirus Package for five computers, valid for one year. Someone will win the Lucky Draw and will win this package. *The Norton Package will only open in the USA.

eMedals: You will love the classy eMedals. Make them any size you want. Post them on your site and on social media!

Revealing our Cover: for the first time, we are revealing our cover for the next anthology, which will be titled LOST. You can see the enlarged cover picture at http://www.CreativeWritingInstitute.com.

The theme sentence is, "I am completely and utterly lost," and it must appear somewhere in your story. Apply it to an emotional state, a physical location, fighting illness, or any other clever angle that comes to mind.

• Open genre
• One prize per person
• Entry fee: $5 per submission
• Submit each story individually
• Word limit is 1,500 to 2,000 words.
• Story may not have been published before.
• No swearing, profanity, explicit sexual scenes, graphic violence, etc.
• Winners agree to minor editing rights and will grant first, non-exclusive, electronic rights.
• All Rights return to the author upon publication.
• Accepting submissions until August 31, 2017, midnight, USA Eastern Standard Time.
• Copy and paste your document into https://CreativeWritingInstitute.submittable.com/submit.

Do NOT send your submission as an email attachment. We will not open attachments. Direct questions to head judge, Jianna Higgins, at [e-mail].

Visit CWI's website to see the book cover and find helpful articles.

http://www.CreativeWritingInstitute.com